Why cant we stop a hurricane before it hits us?

This method has the benefit of being totally awesome: in a nutshell, you would fly supersonic jet aircraft in concentric circles around the eye of the
hurricane. The jets would generate a sonic boom that would disrupt the upward flow of warm air that creates the hurricane. University of Akron at Ohio
professor Arkadii Leonov and his colleagues applied for a patent for this method back in December 2008, as New Scientist reported.

In their application, Leonov’s team claimed that because sonic booms spread out as they travel away from an aircraft, you might only need a small
number of jets to stop a hurricane. They wrote: “Two F-4 jet fighters flying at approximately Mach 1.5 are sufficient to suppress, mitigate and/or
destroy a typical sized hurricane/typhoon.”

It goes on to cover many other ideas, including "nukes" if you can believe that, lasers, cryo bombing the surface of the ocean, and pumping the warm
surface water to the sea floor to try and rob the storm of its fuel source, as well as several others

I spoke to Leonov on the phone. An excitable man with a thick accent that sounds a bit like Bane from The Dark Knight Rises, he told me that he’s
published “220 different papers, in absolutely different fields of studies.” And stopping hurricanes is just one of the many topics that he’s
got opinions about.

An illustration of hurricane-interfering jets: Arkadii Leonov Leonov says “the professionals” in this area have “simply ignored me. I
tried several times to talk to MIT or Florida Hurricane Center. The answer was silence.” He adds that he visited the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration a few months ago and presented his ideas. And they encouraged him to write a paper for the journal Atmospheric Research,
which he submitted recently.

I found this article to be fairly enjoyable reading, and also quite timely, considering the recent effects of Sandy
and talk of trying to stop future hurricanes.

Method #3: Project STORMFURY This was a government project to seed hurricanes with silver iodide, in the hopes of strengthening the clouds around
the hurricane and creating an “outer eyewall.” According to Willoughby— who helped put the project to bed once and for all — researchers
seeded clouds in hurricanes Esther (1961), Beulah (1963), Debbie (1969), and Ginger (1971) with silver iodide. And at first, the results appeared
promising — the hurricanes seemed to slow down somewhat. But further observation revealed that the hurricane changes were consistent with what
you’d expect a hurricane to do, and it turned out that hurricanes develop an “outer eyewall” on their own, without any human intervention. And
observations in the 1980s proved that there just wasn’t enough supercooled water inside hurricanes for the silver iodide to have much
effect.

The Potential Unintended Consequences of Screwing With Hurricanes The biggest worry about screwing with hurricanes is, you might create an effect
that’s worse than the problem you’re trying to solve. Just like with other huge geo-engineering projects, “we just don’t want to mess around
with complex geophysical phenomena without knowing what we’re doing,” says Gleick. Hurricanes actually have some beneficial impacts as well as
harmful ones, adds McFarquhar. They supply moisture to parts of the world that would otherwise be bone dry. They also transport heat away from the
equator, towards the poles. “Are we wise enough to know the downstream consequences of large-scale modification? I doubt that,” said Patrick
Michaels, director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute. “There are obvious downsides to fiddling with things that we
don’t understand!”

Along with several other reasons, including "nukes" if you can believe that. Also cryo boming the surface of the ocean with liquid nitrogen, to rob
the hurricane of its power supply, and pumping the warm surface water to the ocean floor. as well as several others I didnt mention.

The power output ratio between a hurricane and something man made, is many orders of magnitude apart.

Hurricanes are produced by global processes. The amount of energy to counter act said forces would be beyond our current scientific means.

Not possible now, but perhaps in the future for sure.

I wouldnt want to fly that plane

Edit:

However the more i think of it, the more i am leaning to possibilities that could not stop a hurricane, but perhaps redirect it. There are instances
were a little bit of power applied to the right point can have a dramatic effect.

Isuggest caution to those that wish to play with our global climate. We may inadvertently trigger something we cannot undo.

Nice, Lasers are always the answer, I saw it in star wars.

I believe we are gonna be the cause of 'global climate change" with our misguided attempts to tinker with it, we dont even know what will happen if
we leave it alone, how can we expect to know what would happen if we add power to it?

Interesting topic.
The methods sound like they might do more harm than good.
It could steer the hurricane into a dangerous path or this idea of pumping warmer surface water to the sea floor, churning up the water like that
could generate energy and trigger a tsunami? What if that happened? I don't know if it could, but I wouldn't want to find out.

Possibly they might find ways to weaken a storm in the future, but until then its best to find other ways to avoid being in the path of one. It's not
like they can't forecast them now and give ample warnings. It's people who ignore the warnings that contribute to the death toll. This is one
disaster that has a forecast, with the opportunity to get out of the way . An earthquake strikes without warning.

Proof that this technology exists,please.And no,HAARP isn't proof.While I love this website theories that they exist are not hard evidence nor are
members opinions.So,I won't hold my breath that you can provide any real proof.

Proof that this technology exists,please.And no,HAARP isn't proof.While I love this website theories that they exist are not hard evidence nor are
members opinions.So,I won't hold my breath that you can provide any real proof.

If there were "proof" you would accept, you would already know about it, and it would be fact instead of theory and opinion, like most conspiracies.
I have read and seen enough evidence for myself. Everyone else will have to do their own homework.

I don't expect you or anyone else to take my word for it just because I posted an opinion, but I do expect that ATS members might try to do a little
objective research of their own. If you've done that, and you believe it's bunk, then we agree to disagree.

Of the methods mentioned, only ONE is remotely worthy of continued consideration. That would be the one involving supersonic booms. The reason for
that is that all the other mentioned methods will have obviously catastrophic effects on the ecosystem of the sea.

The fact that nukes feature in this at all is an absolute bloody disgrace.

You may see this to be related or not, please bear in mind that I am new to posting (an ATS virgin-if you like).
I have no links, no resource to verify my claims, no links to back up my theories, some will say that its the ramblings of some mad old fool (I am
only 33) but it is something that I have been thinking about. Give me a minute or two and I will explain.
Bush monumentally screwed up, to the cost of thousands of people, when Katrina hit New Orleans. We all know the disaster that happened there and the
cost to Bushs' credability when he failed to help the hundreds/thousands of families that lost everything and are still suffering today.
We have all heard of cloud seeding where you can change the course and severity of a hurricane, so what if you could create a hurricane (HAARP) and
ensure that it hits one of the most fragile areas of America? 100's of square miles at or below sea level, a financial backbone of America due to the
stock exchange.
Reply swiftly and effectively and without dely, and you will have an election winning formular.
Like I said earlier, I have nothing to back up my theories but I will leave it to you to make up your own mind.
Oh! on a side note. Anyone seen Phelem 123? A guy causes a threat to manipulate the stock exchange. I believe that the next natural disaster can be
predicted through the stock exchange lows and highs, as the worlds elite have a vested interest in making money.

Like I say I will be mocked for my views but hey! not as strange as some of the stuff that I have read!!

What is sound in essence? It is the movement of air molecules, that is picked up by the ear, and recognised by your brain.

The sound of a sonic boom, therefore, is the movement of air that has been displaced by the passage of an object moving faster than the speed of
sound. The shockwave produced by such a thing is not an insigificant entity.

Also, it doesnt matter a damn wether THAT one works, as its the only one whose side effects are not potentially worse than the effect of a
hurricane.

edit on 8-11-2012 by TrueBrit because: added a point that I failed to add first time because I have flu and cannot be expected to
perform perfectly right now.

Good news, folks. Microsoft founder Bill Gates has turned his attention to controlling the weather.

Five U.S. Patent and Trade Office patent applications, made public on July 9, propose slowing hurricanes by pumping cold, deep-ocean water in their
paths from barges. If issued, the patents offer 18 years of legal rights to the idea for Gates and co-inventors, including climate scientist Ken
Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

Hurricanes, most famously demonstrated by the deadly intensification of Hurricane Katrina before its landfall in 2005, draw strength from warm waters
on the ocean's surface. The patents describe a system for strategically placing turbine-equipped barges in the path of storms to chill sea surfaces
with cold water pumped from the depths.

All of these methods that involve messing with the hydrological cycle in some way are out. They are all too bloody dangerous for the long term
stability of the seas ecosystems, which are drivers for global weather, and must NEVER be messed with more than they already have been by fishing, by
drilling for oil, and by pretty much every oceanic activity we partake of.

Nukes are out because... well.... JUST WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY THINKING? Preventing hurricanes from doing damage would be great, but preventing them
from happening at all WILL kill more people, ruin more cities, and bugger up our world in so many more ways, than allowing them to occur ever will.

The only realistic way to deal with the EFFECTS of hurricanes, is to build or rebuild EVERY coastal city, or simply move the hell out of them.
Messing with the ocean in ANY way is not an option that will come to anything but the most rotten of fruit.

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